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Druzki

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Дръзки [Druzki]			Schneider, Chalons-sur-Saône, France	1907	10.8.1907	1.1908	captured by USSR 9.9.1944 (TS Ингул [Ingul]), returned 7.1945, stricken 1954
Смели [Smeli]			Schneider, Chalons-sur-Saône, France	1907	10.8.1907	1.1908	foundered 19.5.1943
Храбри [Khrabri]			Schneider, Chalons-sur-Saône, France	1907	10.8.1907	1.1908	captured by USSR 9.9.1944 (TS Вычегда [Vychegda]), returned 7.1945, stricken 1954
Строги [Strogi]			Schneider, Chalons-sur-Saône, France	1907	6.4.1908	8.1909	captured by USSR 9.9.1944, returned 7.1945, stricken 1954
Летящи [Letyashchi]			Schneider, Chalons-sur-Saône, France	1907	6.4.1908	8.1909	wrecked 28.11.1918
Шумни [Shumni]			Schneider, Chalons-sur-Saône, France	1907	6.4.1908	8.1909	sunk 11.9.1916

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	97.5
Displacement full, t	?
Length, m	38.0
Breadth, m	4.40
Draught, m	1.30 mean 2.40 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 2 Normand water-tube boilers
Power, h. p.	1950
Max speed, kts	26
Fuel, t	coal 11
Endurance, nm(kts)	500(16)
Armament	2 x 1 - 47/50 M1902, 1 x 2 - 450 TT (TT were directed to opposing sides), 1 - 450 TT (bow)
Complement	27 - 32

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Project history

Standard torpedo boats of 38m type. Drzki, Khrabri and Strogi in the late 1919 were repaired with removing of TTs (on peace treaty conditions; actually since 1925 TTs were secretly temporarily installed on ships for exercises) and installation of minesweeping equipment. In the winter 1923-1924 also Smeli was commissioned again with the same armament.

Modernizations

late 1919, Druzki, Khrabri, Strogi; 1924, Smeli: - 1 - 450 TT, 1 x 2 - 450 TT; + mechanical minesweeping gear

1934, all survived: - 2 x 1 - 47/50; + 2 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 1 x 2 - 450 TT

1942, all survived: - 2 x 1 - 37/80; + 2 x 1 - 47/50 M1902, DCR

Naval service

Shumni was lost on Russian mine 11.9.1916 off Varna, Letyashchi already after an armistice wrecked on rocks 28.11.1918. Druzki 15.10.1942 was sunk at Varna as a result of internal explosion, but salvaged and in 1945 commissioned again. Smeli 19.5.1943 capsized during a storm between Varna and Burgas and was lost. Druzki, Khrabri and Strogi 9.9.1944 were captured at Varna by Soviet troops, thus last two boats were commissioned by Soviet Navy as TSs Ingul and Vychegda. All three were returned to Bulgaria in July, 1945. Druzki is stored todayas a monument in Varna.